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How can I install Win 10 SDK version 10.0.17763.132 from Visual Studio installer?

Surprisingly, but this is what should have been installed, had you selected that item listed as 10.0.17763.0 at the time of writing this question. This is a common practice that allows to roll out some of the updates automatically, installing them without user intervention - for example, to fix critical bugs or close serious vulnerabilities.

As you may have noticed, these versions differ only in the last number after the dot. Additionally, all SDK versions on your screenshot end with .0. You might be wondering: why couldn't Microsoft write 10.0.17763.* or even just 10.0.17763 to avoid such confusion? I don't know for sure, but my best guess is that it would have simply confuse things in a different way then. In the first case, it could create an impression that several revisions of the same version are going to be installed at once, while in the second one, there is a feeling that this is basically the only SDK release (as it essentially was before Windows 10).

Let's do some experimentation. Look, this is still the case in my VS 2019 setup:

_{(btw, I asked a similar question recently, but unfortunately this one was closed :C)}

However, after installing Windows 11 SDK (10.0.22621.0) I get the following:

As you can see, the resulting installation has a whole scattering of version numbers:

10.0.22621 - Confirms the assumption about the insignificance of the last number.
10.0.22621.5040 - The actual version number, a full one.
10.1.22621.5040 - Same, but with minor part increased for some reason.
10.0.22621.7 - As also specified in _package.json for some reason.

Okay, and what if we install Windows 10 SDK (10.0.19041.0)? Well, a really similar picture there:

10.0.19041
10.0.19041.5609
10.1.19041.5609
10.0.19041.4

According to an article in the official Visual Studio blog (strangely enough, this is the only source I could find), the SDKs use nowadays one of the currently standard Microsoft versioning schemes in the form of Major.Minor.Build.Revision (not to be confused with the much more common Major.Minor.Revision.Build). If you are interested in understanding it, I recommend these links:

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